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Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. fue un cuentista y poeta estadounidense.

Destacado principalmente por sus relatos de corte minimalista,[1]​ en su mayoría ambientados en la región Noroeste de Estados Unidos y protagonizados por personajes de clase trabajadora o media baja,[2]​ Carver es considerado uno de los fundadores y mayores exponentes del movimiento literario conocido como «realismo sucio».[3]​[4]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 25. mayo 1938 – 2. agosto 1988  •  Otros nombres ريموند كارفر, ریموند کارور
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Frases célebres de Raymond Carver

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“Podía escuchar mi corazón latir. Podía escuchar el corazón de todos. Podía escuchar el ruido humano que hacíamos allí sentados, ninguno de nosotros nos movíamos, ni siquiera cuando la habitación se oscureció.”

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“Iba a contaros algo -empezó Mel-. Bueno, iba a demostrar algo. Veréis: sucedió hace unos meses, pero sigue sucediendo en este mismo instante, y es algo que debería hacer que nos avergoncemos cuando hablamos como si supiéramos de qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor.”

Raymond Carver libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“Hay en el alma un deseo de no pensar. De estar quieto. Emparejado con éste, un deseo de ser estricto, sí, y riguroso. Pero el alma también es una afable hija de puta no siempre de fiar.”

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“Si somos lectores o escritores afortunados, terminamos la última frase de un cuento y nos quedamos sentados tranquilamente. Pensamos en lo que hemos escrito o leído y puede que nuestros corazones o nuestras mentes hayan dado un paso hacia delante. Puede que nuestra temperatura corporal haya subido o bajado un grado. Entonces, respirando hondamente, nos reponemos y nos levantamos, “criaturas de sangre caliente y nervios”, que dice un personaje de Chejov. Y pasamos a otra cosa. A la vida. Siempre a la vida.”

Raymond Carver

“Los sueños son eso de lo que uno se despierta.”

Raymond Carver

Cathedral

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“Me desperté esta mañana con una gran urgencia de acostarme en la cama y leer todo el día.”

Raymond Carver

“Es octubre, un día húmedo. Desde la ventana del hotel veo demasiadas cosas de esta ciudad del Medio Oeste. Veo cómo se encienden las luces de algunos edificios, veo cómo el humo de las altas chimeneas se alza en columnas espesas. Me gustaría no tener que mirar.”

Raymond Carver libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“Creo que en el amor no somos más que principiantes. Decimos”

Raymond Carver

De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor

Raymond Carver: Frases en inglés

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”

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“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

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Raymond Carver libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Variante: and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Fuente: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.”

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Raymond Carver

Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.”

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Raymond Carver libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Fuente: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.”

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Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”

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Raymond Carver libro A New Path to the Waterfall

Fuente: A New Path to the Waterfall

“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.”

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Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.”

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Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?”

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Raymond Carver libro Cathedral

Fuente: Cathedral

“there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.”

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Raymond Carver

Fuente: Ultramarine: Poems

“This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”

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Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.”

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Raymond Carver libro Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Fuente: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”

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Raymond Carver libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Fuente: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

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“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.”

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Raymond Carver

Fuente: Distance and other stories

“There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?”

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Raymond Carver libro Cathedral

Fuente: Cathedral

“Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.”

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Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.”

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Raymond Carver libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Fuente: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”

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Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.”

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Raymond Carver

Fuente: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

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